On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:27:21 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:30:28 -0500, the infamous "Martin H. Eastburn"
scrawled the following:

Don't bet on it.
Solid state can have issues in a magnetic field.
The fact that you don't have a mainspring doesn't mean
you don't have steel gears.

Hey, I'll send you my old Casio or Timex. See if you can find a magnet
gnarly enough to affect it. I've got five bucks against it.

I didn't realize there was a gearbox in those LCD displays. Must be a
masterpiece of micro-engineering BEG


Mark Rand
RTFM